Technical Program Manager — Engineering Software Tools
Description
Tesla's electric motors depend on how well we design, simulate, and iterate – and increasingly on the software tools that make that possible. This role owns how that software gets built: scope, timelines, quality bar, and accountability.
You will not be a scheduler or a status-report collector. You will be a technical owner who has written code and designed architecture, who knows where software projects actually stall, and who drives a team of engineering-tools developers to ship exceptional work on a predictable cadence. You will define what "done" and "excellent" mean here, and hold the line on both.
The role is based in Greece, in a team whose work has global impact on Tesla's motors.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end delivery of the engineering tools portfolio: data pipelines, visualization and comparison tools, optimization workflows, and AI agentic workflows used across the motor organization
- Drive daily execution – scope, timelines, dependencies, and blockers – with direct, hands-on follow-up rather than second-hand status
- Establish single-threaded ownership for every active workstream, so each project has one clearly accountable engineer
- Define and enforce the quality bar: architecture reviews, code review standards, testing, documentation, and performance expectations for high-volume engineering datasets
- Break ambiguous engineering needs into well-scoped, estimable work, and push back on scope that does not earn its cost
- Identify and remove bottlenecks, both technical (infrastructure, data access, tooling, CI) and organizational (unclear requirements, cross-team dependencies)
- Partner with motor designers, test engineers, and software developers to translate engineering needs into a prioritized, realistic roadmap
- Drive adoption of AI coding agents across the team to increase throughput – while insisting that engineers review and own every choice those agents make
- Report clearly to leadership on progress, risk, and trade-offs, with no surprise
Requirements
- Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field
- 5 years in software development, with hands-on experience writing production code and owning architecture decisions
- 2 years leading or driving delivery of software projects (technical program management, tech lead, or engineering management)
- Strong working knowledge of Python and/or MATLAB – enough to read the team's code, review a design, and judge an estimate
- Experience with SQL databases and large-scale datasets
- Hands-on experience with AI coding agents (e.g., Claude, Cursor, or similar) in real projects, and the judgment to critically review and own every choice they make
- Demonstrated track record of raising a team's quality bar and delivery predictability
- Clear, concise communicator who is comfortable holding people accountable without bureaucracy
- Comfortable working in a multinational, cross-functional team
- Fluent written and spoken English
Nice to have
- Experience building LLM-based tools or agents (e.g., tool calling, agent frameworks, MCP)